Vocabulary Biome: A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests.
DVD player. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some manufacturers originally announced that DVD players would be available as early as the middle of 1996. These predictions were woefully optimistic.
VLC is one of the most popular video players, and can play DVDs and many Blu-Ray discs. You can download VLC for free from videolan.org/vlc. VLC is an open-source player, and does not contain any advertisements or spyware. MPC-HC (Media Player Classic) is another popular third-party media player.